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The processing pathway of endothelin-1 production.
Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology - 1 Jan 1998
Kido T, Sawamura T, Masaki T
Abstract excerpt
Production of endothelin (ET-1) is believed to be a three-step process, consisting of an initial proteolytic cleavage by signal peptidase of preproET-1, a second cleavage of proET-1 to big ET-1-Lys-Arg by dibasic amino acid-specific convertase and C-terminal trimming, and finally the processing of Big ET-1 to ET-1 by endothelin-converting enzyme (ECE). To clarify the relationships between the second processing...
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